[mdlug] IT Legal case, and excellant photo of 1970's hard disk technology

[Aaron Kulkis]

Paul wrote:
> Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com>, on Thu Mar 05, 2009 [03:25:46 PM] said:
>> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>>> <http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/court-self-incrimination-privilege-stops-with-passwords.ars>
>>>   
>> Back in 97 I bought a pair of external SCSI drive boxes that had Fujitsu
>> 1 gig drives in them,  5.25" full bay jobs.  Some time later one
>> failed.  I cracked it open and that is what it looked like.  The thing
>> had 12 platters.  The other one still works.
>>
> 
> 	Hi;
> 
> 	Actually; that looks like a drive with a removable disc pack.
> You can see the heads have been retracted and the little rollers
> compressed the opposing heads to draw away from the platters. The
> ones I have seen like this were typically about the size of a washing
> machine and the discs were 14" platters. Commonly found in dinosaur
> pens.
> 

Precisely.
And it was pretty nasty when they suffered a head crash --
big lathe-like mark scraping away all of the magnetic media
(rust brown because..well, it was powdered rust).